Hi everybody!
Where I can find official tabs for Offspring songs?
Are they exist at all?

the_GoDdEsS

07-07-2006, 11:51 PM

Yes, are exist. You are need find internet site.

dont give me no crap

07-08-2006, 12:11 AM

Yes, are exist. You are need find internet site.

lmao...

but seriously, just go to google and search for "offspring tabs" or something. or, god forbid, you could actually go to your local music store and pay for a book of sheet music.

Slayter

07-08-2006, 12:15 AM

I already have many Offspring tabs but they don't sounds like original.
I create this topic cause I hope there's somebody who already can play some 'springs songs and can give me some usefull advices ;)
At local music store there's no any foreign group book of sheet music.
Below you see link on tabs which I have.
Offspring tabs (http://slay.pp.ru/Offspring_tabs.zip) (183Kb). In archive guitar Pro format.

dont give me no crap

07-08-2006, 12:19 AM

If you seriously need it to sound like the original just buy a book of offspring tabs...i have one for greatest hits but im really bad at playing anything in it...

noodlesfan

07-08-2006, 12:25 AM

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/offspring_tabs.htm

Slayter

07-08-2006, 12:33 AM

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/offspring_tabs.htm

link goes to bookmarks, 10x.

noodlesfan

07-08-2006, 12:35 AM

link goes to bookmarks, 10x.
I'm taking that as a compliment.

n00b

07-09-2006, 05:07 AM

Yes, are exist. You are need find internet site.

oh god, that was the funniest thing i've seen in a while.

Mr. Orange

07-09-2006, 08:20 AM

Text tabs you find on the internet are pretty much useless. If you wanna learn the songs you gotta order the songbooks

Guitar Pro tabs are twice as good as the song books. They show what to play on bass, guitar, and drums.

Not to mention, they're 100% free.

mrconeman

07-09-2006, 08:24 AM

Text tabs you find on the internet are pretty much useless. If you wanna learn the songs you gotta order the songbooks

Completely un-true.
They are the exact same thing, someone elses interpretation of how the song is/was played by the original artist, just because something says official on the front doesnt mean its content is correct, lots of tab books are utter rubbish.
Thats not to say that lots of internet tabs arent rubbish, because alot of them are, but internet tabs and "official" tab books are about as usefull as each other.

Mr. Orange

07-09-2006, 08:38 AM

A lot of tab books are bullshit I agree, but the offspring books are done by Hal Leonard. They're the most accurate songbooks you can get. And anyone who's anyone can submit text tabs to a site. Hell I submited a few to a couple sites when I was 13. Besides, you're gonna find few different tabs for most songs on the internet, and no two are gonna be the same. A lot of them completely contradict each other. So unless you have a really good ear, it's immposible to know which one is right. And actually, if you have a good ear you can probably just figure it out on your own anyway. But I have all the songbooks (except Greatest Hits) and I find them all very useful, accurate, and easy to read, not like 99% of the text tabs I find online.

noodlesfan

07-09-2006, 08:41 AM

But the ones online sound like the song, the ones that don't sound right, usually don't stay up too long. It shouldn't be limited to one way to play everything, one tab might offer how to play a song using open chords, another will show you how to do it in power chords.

mrconeman

07-09-2006, 08:46 AM

Good points I guess. But I do most of my learning by ear now anyway, especailly if I were ever to learn an Offspring song again.

n00b

07-09-2006, 08:49 AM

im known to have a great ear, and i can tell you that maybe 60 percent of all the tabs on sites likes ultimat-guitar are shit. complete utter shit.

Mr. Orange

07-09-2006, 08:51 AM

check out this one. It's the first tab i found for all i want. It's not even in the right key

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/o/offspring/all_i_want_tab.htm

noodlesfan

07-09-2006, 08:52 AM

im known to have a great ear, and i can tell you that maybe 60 percent of all the tabs on sites likes ultimat-guitar are shit. complete utter shit.
And there's 40% of them that aren't shit, just sift through. I can upload a .zip folder with almost every rock song on it in guitar pro format, and they're all accurate.

Mr. Orange

07-09-2006, 08:54 AM

so upload it already, let's see how accurate they are

noodlesfan

07-09-2006, 08:57 AM

so upload it already, let's see how accurate they are
I'll have it on by the end of the day.

Mr. Orange

07-09-2006, 09:02 AM

ok. just some offspring songs though

noodlesfan

07-09-2006, 09:04 AM

Just the offspring songs? oh, that makes it a hell of a lot easier than finding somewhere that offers to host a file that big.

noodlesfan

07-09-2006, 11:33 AM

http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=4211239

It's not all their tabs, but they're pretty accurate, not to mention the drum and bass tabs to go with them.

H1T_That

07-09-2006, 01:19 PM

'springs songs

why'd no-one pick up on this eariler? lol

Mr. Orange

07-09-2006, 01:33 PM

http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=4211239

It's not all their tabs, but they're pretty accurate, not to mention the drum and bass tabs to go with them.
Well apparently you and I have completely different definitions of Ďaccurateí. Most of those guitar pro files are worse than the text tabs.

The first one there was All Along. When I opened it I noticed right away that there was no mention of the G#5 chord on the intro.

Come Out And Play was pretty bad. The intro is supposed to be 3 harmonics played on the 5th fret of the low E string. The rhythm guitar for the middle-eastern riff is wrong, itís not played the same as the verse as everyone seems to think. Thereís no mention of the palm muting on the verse, and thereís also not supposed to be any completely muted strings on the verse either. And also, the D5 chord on the pre-chorus wasnít even mentioned.

Next I checked out Gotta Get Away. On the inrto youíre supposed to play on the B and G strings, not the E and B strings. And those two notes at the beginning of the intro riff arenít just all 6 strings muted, itís supposed to be a harmonic on the 7th fret of the G string. Also, the verse is played the same as the main riff, except the open E string is muted. Not that they got that riff right anyway. The last bar of the main riff in Gotta Get Away is supposed to look like this: